DvdToSymbian for VLC

Published by Steve Litchfield at 16:22 UTC, July 23rd 2010

One of the biggest blights on Internet forums in the last year has been a deluge of spam for commercial DVD ripping software - well, such products may just be even more redundant with Freepoc legend Malcolm Bryant's latest mini-project, DvdToSymbian, a special script for the freeware VLC (for Windows) that effectively offers a one-click route from (non-copyrighted) DVD to a nHD movie file for a S60 5th Edition smartphone. Link and quotes below.

"Starting from a DOS prompt, DvdToSymbian.bat will rip a widescreen film (2.35:1 aspect ratio) from DVD so that it can be played back on a Symbian 640x360 screen. This batch file is for Windows, however it's possible to write similar scripts for Mac OS X and Linux."

Screenshot

You can find the DvdToSymbian script here.


 

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Platforms: S60 5th Edition

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News Discussion

Unregistered
This sounds good Steve, any idea of bitrates/end file sizes/formats etc?
malbry
Hi,

Video bitrate is set to 1500, but can easily be permanently or temporarily changed in the script - it is assigned to a variable. The audio bitrate is set to 128. The file size depends on the length of the film, but let's say 1.2G for a typical film - well within the size of a typical 8G or 16G memory card. Of course changing the video bitrate makes the file correspondingly smaller or larger.

The resulting file format is MPEG4 video / AAC audio in a MP4 wrapper, which plays nicely in the default RealPlayer (Video Player) application on S60v5 devices.

Best regards,
Malcolm
www.freepoc.org
milloreeri
One of the largest ruins of the forums on the Internet last year has been a flood of spam in a commercial DVD ripping software - Yes, these products can become even more redundant Freepoc legend Malcolm Bryant last mini-project, DVD Symbian, a special script software free VLC that actually offers a road with one click from the DVD of a film archives NHD.
hary536
Hi,
I can try to write similar for MAC, but i don't know about Windows DOS commands, so can't figure out what each of your settings/commands mean.
I am not expert, hence this confusion.
leema
Nice information.............

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